With regard to the following query on the Banat list, there has been no formal event yet arranged for the Twin Cities. See below for the chain of recent correspondence on the DS-TwinCities listserv. There now looks to be a groundswell of interest since our last event was three or four years ago. Perhaps we can convince Carol or some other kind soul to actually devise a plan (work is pretty busy for me these days). [By the way, I would welcome all of good spirit who are sincerely interested, whatever their ethnic background; Hungary-South was a very mixed bag after all.]Regards, Charlie Tiller, St. Paul, MN > From: [email protected] > Subject: BANAT Digest, Vol 9, Issue 88 > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:20:41 -0600 > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:58:39 -0500 > From: Marilyn McClaskey <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] Twin Cities Meeting > To: "BANAT LIST" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > I would be very interested. I think I missed the beginning of this > thread, but if potato pancakes are involved, it must be good. > DS-TwinCities listserv chain:Carol Cicotta wrote: It crossed my mind that I would show my photos taken in 2006 when Glen Schwartz from Canada, a group from Canada, and three of us from the US took the first organized trip to Hungary and created an adventure that went through Germany, Luxembourg, France, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and then back to Germany. My photos are not necessarily organized but a conglomeration of all those who took the trip. We put them all on a CD and came up with almost 4,000 from 13 people, including our bus guide who just happened to be a photographer by trade. It was a thought anyway.............figured the lunch or supper would come first though-------just to get reacquainted cac From: Charlie Tiller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 8:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [DS-TwinCities] up for a 2014 meeting? Steve et al, A spring-summer brunch or dinner would be nice if there is enough interest among the TC local Banaters. My 2013 track went from Novi Sad to Timisoara and back with Stasa Cvetkovic, who is a friendly and knowledgable Serbian guide. We stopped in Srpska Crnja (Deutsch Zerne), Toba, and Jimbolia (Hatzfeld), with a quick pass through Grabatz. We did this all in one day, so it was quite a lot in a very short time. Having done the research already, that was enough for me to fulfill my personal aim of getting a palpable sense of the place. Aside from the cities, these are not tourist destinations; the only people who will find a thrill are those seeking ancestral nostalgia - and it worked for me. My main regret was not having time to stalk the cemeteries for ancestors, but that could really take weeks and might still not turn up my people. It came to mind that a cool project would be staying in town to map the cemeteries along with GPS and photos, but that could take many people many weeks. Maybe when I retire someday and have exhausted my other interests...? Regards, Charlie Tiller St. Paul, MN From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [DS-TwinCities] up for a 2014 meeting? Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 21:42:20 -0700 Hi Carol and fellow Banaters, This list has been very quiet over past several years and I'm glad to see some interest in another gathering. Charlie, I think that many in the group would be interested in hearing about your travels to the Banat. What villages did you visit? ... Steve Herold Now living in Bismarck, ND-----------------------------------------------------------------------------C.Tiller wrote: Hi all, Do I take it that the recent few emails on this long-dormant listserv imply interest in another DS meet-up in the Twin Cities in the near future? I'd look forward to sharing about my visit to the Banat neighborhood last fall and hearing about others recent discoveries. Best wishes to my fellow Banaters and Schwabs, Charlie Tiller St. Paul, MN